Six victories in seven contests is more than enough to put the stamp of favourite on any sportsman and, having won six events prior to the Sanremo Rally, Didier Auriol…

THE Sussex coast is hardly the place where one would expect to find breeders of competition engines, yet in the Ancient Town of Rye, one of the Cinque Ports before the…

Whilst the T.T. had basked in OuIton Park sunshine, the Ilford Films 500-mile race for GT and sports cars at Brands Hatch the following week started in a torrential downpour…

Wheras the Swedish Rally is characterised by snow, the San Remo Rally ought to have been held in the March sunshine of the Mediterranean. But it wasn't. On the coast…

One of the reasons for New Zealand's great enchantment and fascination is its remoteness. No one ever goes there on the way to somewhere else because there's pretty well nowhere…

Where are the crowds? In 1972, when Michigan’s Press-on-Regardless Rally joined the list of qualifiers for what was then the International Rally Championship for Makes, forerunner of the World Championship,…

The months of high summer have always been regarded as the close season for rallying; not for the same reasons as cricket isn't played in the winter nor grouse shot…

Rain, mud, torrent and flood Just as a delicious meal serves no purpose whatsoever if laid before empty chairs, so the best rally in the world can be quite insignificant…

Rally of the Thousand Lakes When the Rally of the Thousand Lakes used to take place at the end of August, up to 1972, it had a few things in…

Marlboro Safari Rally With the possible exception of sun-hungry tourists, the coming of Kenya's Long Rains is always welcomed, even celebrated, by both people and animals, but one large section…

In a blaze of late April sunshine the 1966 International T.T., 31st in the series since it began in 1905, was held for the second time at Oulton Park. It…

Have you ever tried to categorise something which defies categorisation? Do you sometimes ponder whether the "miscellaneous" file is appropriate for that exceptional document, or whether that irregular-size bolt should…